Wednesday, January 5, 2011

5:16 PM

Four Wisconsin residents today were renominated for federal posts by President Obama.

The president has re-nominated former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler to the federal bench in Madison.

It is the third time Obama has sent Butler's nomination to the Senate. The body failed to act on it before the end of 2009 after the president nominated him for the post on Sept. 30 that year. It was then sent back a year ago, but again languished amid GOP complaints that Butler was too activist and liberal for the federal bench.

Obama also re-nominated UW Law School professor Victoria Nourse to the United States Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit, to replace retiring Judge Terence T. Evans. Nourse was originally nominated July 14.

Two more Wisconsin residents received presidential nods: Cora B. Marrett was nominated to be Deputy Director of the National Science Foundation, and Eric G. Potel to be Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development. Marrett was originally nominated on Aug. 15, and Postel on Nov. 15.